Chef's choice

Giuliano Hazan learned a lot from his late mother — famed cookbook writer and instructor Marcella Hazan.

But he wasn't afraid to tweak one of her recipes when developing his Italian Tomato Sauce, one of the first products under his new Giuliano's Classic brand of specialty Italian foods.

His mother always removed the chunks of onion that flavored the sauce while it was cooking. “But at home, we would always fight over the onion because it was the best part,” he says. “It comes out very tender in the end and is sweet and wonderful. So I decided to see what happened if I mixed it into the sauce. I pureed the onion into the sauce and thought it came out very nice, so that's what we ended up doing.”